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April 14th, 2013

At least only one show already has 5 episodes out.

There’s a limited amount of time in the day, and since I tend to watch things within an hour or two of airing instead of waiting half the day for such pleasantries as subtitles or things in resolutions larger than my laptop’s screen, I vastly prefer to watch things more or less with the broadcast schedule. Here’s the quick list of all the shows that premiered along with a short blurb designed to reduce a 24 minute episode to a quarter second bullet point. Extensive or indicative of the entire show? Hell no. The main goal is to finish it in less time than it took to find a header image. They’re all linked to my posts on them (or something at any rate) if you want more info.

And a friendly reminder, most shows are going to be mediocre and forgettable at best, make no mistake about it, so saying that isn’t exactly going out on a limb. My own tastes and preferences are not the last word in everything. Feel free to ramble about your own opinions or thoughts in the comments.

Anything that I am 100% certain I’m going to cover for at least another week has Pollo Frito Kentucky next to it, but that doesn’t mean I’ll stick with it past the next episode or two. Especially this season, that may just mean "most hopeful for the day as I hash things out." Likewise, just because I’m not looking forward to something just yet doesn’t mean that I won’t pick it up. I tend to watch at least part of the second episode of most things, I just don’t write anything if I’ve lost all interest and flipped through for any flashing lights or explosions after 5 minutes.

SUNDAY

Exact same formula as the first season which had already run excrutiatingly thin.

Wrapup:

I’m, uh, not a huge fan of this season already, even not counting almost everything being clustered onto Thursday and Saturday. Hopefully some shows will pick up the pace, but that and Japanese media tend not to be things that go together. Maybe I’ll just post about some obscure games instead, except that those kinds of posts take easily 4-5 times longer than your standard anime cap-and-ramble. Feh, says I. Feh. Maybe this will be the season I write about Venture Brothers… in a month… just to fill the space between Sunday and Tuesday. At least assuming they don’t go back to something like that incredibly awkward Brockless half-season where every episode had a minimum of 12 jokes about pedophilia, often more.

Anyway, back to my endless war against misbehaving Japanese game engines held together with tape. Huzzah.

“Cheap, blatant wish fulfillment without even the slightest hint of effort or subtlety.”

I could not possibly agree more. I thought your average, run-of-the-mill harem was bad, but this show just jumps in and goes, “F*** IT. WE ARE GOING TO GIVE YOU EVERY GODDAMN STEREOTYPE YOU COULD POSSIBLY IMAGINE.”

It’s been a while since I’ve seen a show and been stunned by it’s awfulness, but holy freaking crap, the fact this even exists upsets me to my very core.

Aww dropping Railgun already, the first episode was stupid useless filler, but it looks like story arc begins next episode. This story arc in Railgun is really good, barely barely any Saten and Uiharu.